Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-14
THE EAST.

"A MONUMENT 10 Jne late General Burn
side was unveiled at Providence. R. l., on
the 4th. The work is of bronze and repre-
sents the General on horseback nine feet
high. ~ p, =
AN aeronaut named Clarage has died in
0lean, N Y, from the effects of a fail from
his balloon on the 4th.
THE comedian Edward Lamb died at
Brooklyn recently. His trouble was
cancer of the stomach. He was fifty lght
years old and had been an actor for thirty
i've years.
JUSTICE GoRMAN at New York the other
day committed Vlntrolia Van Rensselaer,,
ten-year-O colored girl, to the House of
Mercy, but the sister of mercy in charge
refused to receive her because she was
colored. .....
In speech at Scranton, Pa, the other
evening, T. V. Powderly urged the neces-
sity for restraint on immigration. He want
ed all new corners to have been self-sup-
porting at their old homes.
WHILE Postmaster Flanagan and his
clerks were delivering mail at Astoria l..
l., the other day some person entered the
rear Of the Office and carried OFF book of
blank postal notes, together with the
stamps and punches used in issuing them.
CLARENDON, Pa, was swept by fire on
the night of the 4th. But very little was
left of the place, the loss amounting to
$780, 900.
THE mortality of New York excites
alarm. On the 4th 200 deaths occurred; on
the 9Th, 2OS
SIX suicides were reported in New York
in one day recently.
NINE persons were seriously injured by
the fall of the roof of dining hall during
q picnic given by st Johns Catholic
Church at Susquehanna, Pa, on the 4th.
RICHARD CRoNAN, while attempting to
swim across Niagara river recently, start
ing from the ''Maid of the Mist" landing
was caught in a current and carried down
through the whirlpool rapids. He was
from Boston.
JOHN SLADE & Co., dry goods, New orlk
have assigned. Preferences, S2O2 no
THE attendants, McHugh and Clearly who
were lately placed in custody by the YER
dict OF the coroner's jury, who accused
them of beating an inmate of Wards Island
Insane Asylum, named George Farris, so
brutally that the man died, have been in
dicted for manslaughter by the New York
grand jury.
yam PHoN LEE, Chinaman who gradu
ated with high honors at Yale recently, has
been married to Miss Elizabeth Maud Je-
rome, New Haven, Conn. heiress.
AT meeting of the First Assembly dis
trict of the United Labor party at New
York Rev. DR.. Edward McGiynn was elect
ed delegate to the national convention at
Syracuse on August 10.
MARK SHANNON, well-known sculptor
while at work on the Government building
at Erie, Pa, recently, fell from the roof to
the ground. He was picked up dead.
THE works of the Conesus Lake Salt and
Mining Company at Lakeville, NY, burned
the other day. Loss, $50, 900.
THE Boston Daily advertiser and the Etes.-
ing Record have been sold to Charles E
Within, of Whitinsville, for 500, Goo The
stock of the old corporation is wiped out
and all of the old stockholders retire from
the ownership In the new concern. Z +
FORTY ladies took the white and black
wells at the Malinckrodt Germany convent
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 9th.
JUDGE WALLACE, of the United States
Circuit Court at New York, has given a de
cision in the case of the United States
against General Badeau to recover SO. 512
which it was claimed that he had kent
while he was Consul General at London.
The result was verdict in favor of the
General
AN explosion of gun cotton at the celu-
loid works at Arlington, n. j., caused the
deaths of man and woman recentlv
dozen others were injured Loss, SO, 600.
WALTER VRooMAN, q socialistic Knight
of Labor, was snubbed on a recent visit to
the headquarters at Philadelphia
A RIOT was reported at the West Leisen-
ring (Pa-) coke works on the 9TH. Four of
the strikers were shot and killed and two
wounded. Later the reports were denied.
An excited feeling prevailed all over the
coke region.
THE WEST.
AT Nashville, Barton County, Mo-, while
the people were celebrating the Fourth,
bolt of lightning darted out of a thunder
cloud. instantly killing four persons, shock
ing several others and killing a span of
mules.
. HTNTON MILLER treasurer of Perry
County, Ind, is defaulter to the extent of
$67, 600 He has disappeared with his young
wife, leaving behind large family of chill
dren by former wife. His predecessor
Also was a defaulter and is now serving
time in the penitentiary.
THE Weber Brewing Company's prem
Uses at Cincinnati were burned on the 4th.
Loss, $4,000. During the fire three lives
nEere lost.